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by riobard 15y ago
You have to use a managing script anyway even if you don't use FPM. FPM makes things easier by managing that part for you. In addition, FPM comes with some goodies that managing scripts don't have.
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by riobard 15y ago
'cause SSDs are not as reliable as they appeare to be to withstand the server-side workload. Enterprise-grade SSDs are significantly more expensive than consumer-grade ones. You are not looking at $1~2/GB price, but $10~20/GB. Given the cap
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by riobard 15y ago
Does anyone have issues with Scala running on OpenJDK?
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by riobard 15y ago
This just shows how plain stupid music labels are in the age of Internet. Seriously, store 50,000 copies of the same file? Insane.
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by riobard 15y ago
This is gonna be downvoted, but I must say, ”mm-dd-yy is totally nuts!” I can accept “Feb 8, 2011”, but definitely not mm-dd-yy. The next one is letter-size paper. Well, another holy war...
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by riobard 15y ago
I said “China no longer _relies_ on compulsory military service”, not “China no longer _has_ compulsory military service”. It is still there, but it compulsorily drafts significantly less people since 1998. So effectively, we no longer have
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by riobard 15y ago
Not until you see the whole picture. In the past few years, Pearl River Delta area (around Shenzhen, where Foxconn and the other sweat factories are located) has been experiencing continuous shortage of experienced cheap labor. Other areas
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by riobard 15y ago
He worried about performance. Grails runs on JVM, but AFAIK, it is not as fast as Java/Scala/Clojure.
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by riobard 15y ago
I'm wondering what's your screen resolution? I'm using it on 1920x1080 + 1600x1440 dual screen. To me, the ability of iTerm2 to vertically and horizontally split multiple terminals fullscreen on a big monitor is a huge plus. And for a lone
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by riobard 15y ago
Optical drives are gonna be like floppy disks within a few years. Apple probably won't be bothered with it. The next iteration of MacBook Pros is likely to drop optical drives too.
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by riobard 15y ago
“Anyone that needs to type out a paper for school, for example, might need something more than a smartphone.” This might sound awkward, but it's actually doable on an iPad with the bluetooth keyboard connected for typing. Maybe not for comp
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by riobard 15y ago
Not sure if it is just me, but I feel LED lamps emit inferior quality of light for reading. Hurts my eyes.
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by riobard 15y ago
Homebrew tries to reuse system packages as much as possible. MacPorts comes with its own everything. Homebrew tends to have fresher packages---new versions of popular packages are usually updated within hours. Haven't look back to MacPorts
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by riobard 15y ago
This is a BRILLIANT idea!!
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by riobard 15y ago
I know, I know. I like the idea of reCAPTCHA to crowdsource a very hard problem for the common good. I know how it works in and out. It is awesome. The only problem: things sound nice in theory do not always work well in practice. I ran int
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by riobard 15y ago
So what's the actual time it takes for light to travel 12 billion lightyears?
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by riobard 15y ago
reCAPTCHA, after extensive deployment in production, now becomes extremely difficult to solve from time to time. It just renders impossible to recognize scan images. User frustration is serious concern. If you care about conversion rate, DO
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by riobard 15y ago
From the article it mentioned that the gunman, posed as policeman, asked people to gather around before shooting. Those victims were taken by surprise.
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by riobard 15y ago
I recalled there was an internal Apple support stat showing that the two major sources of security holes on Mac OS X are Flash and Java. Apple has to maintain its own JVM stack, which is basically nightmare for a company with so few head co
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by riobard 15y ago
That was years ago. Practically no one has ever written pleasant Java-based consumer-facing applications running on OS X. Then iOS and OS X attracted a lot of native app developers using Xcode/Obj-C, and it paved the end of pre-installed Ja
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by riobard 15y ago
Hmmm, so a simple description of what the irrational thinking the market has deserves a downvote now. I used not to believe the downvoting trend on HN, but it appeared to be a real issue.
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by riobard 15y ago
Cisco is hardly the cheapest manufacture, right?
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by riobard 15y ago
'cause the popular belief is that once Jobs retires, Apple will enjoy a free fall in _everything_. Fascinating.
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by riobard 15y ago
I never understand why we keep drafting all sorts of identity mechanisms instead of using public key. It's easy to understand, very secure, and battle-field tested.
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by riobard 15y ago
Does anyone know if it supports authentication using SSH public key instead of another password?
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by riobard 15y ago
Thanks for the response! I'm looking for a solution such that Python will go and load system's time zone and use that---it's a nightmare to deploy an app to multiple severs located in different timezone and I have to change the timezone in
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by riobard 15y ago
I'm just bitten by this today: I was trying to get the time zone offset in Python to print the local time for an app. Doing date +%z in console gives me correct offset +0800 of China (we do not have DST anymore) while doin
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by riobard 15y ago
You can create additional different keychains with different passwords than the login one. For most people, having a password manager + random-generated passwords are _much_ better than using one simple password for all.
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by riobard 15y ago
Price: $999 -> $299 Happened to many Apple apps that went into Mac App Store.
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by riobard 15y ago
Mozilla is gonna do frequent updates like Chrome starting from Firefox 5.

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